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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!rich
  2. From: mitja%hera.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mitja Baumhackl)
  3. Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
  4. Subject: Pepsi address (re: tv in classroom/Whittle)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul28.210230.199@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
  6. Date: 28 Jul 92 21:02:30 GMT
  7. Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
  8. Followup-To: alt.activism.d
  9. Organization: University of California, Berkeley
  10. Lines: 19
  11. Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  12. Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  13. Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  14.  
  15. A few posts back was a message about the use of televisions in the classroom.
  16. Whittle Communications has introduced "Channel One" into several classrooms
  17. around the nation.  Now when you send your kids to school, they can watch
  18. tv programming, complete with commercials.
  19.  
  20. If you would like to send a letter of protest to Pepsi-Cola over their
  21. decision to advertise in America's classrooms, write:
  22.  
  23.     Pepsi-Cola Consumer Affairs
  24.     2600 Michelson, Suite 1700
  25.     Irvine, California  92715
  26.  
  27. Let them know that students watch enough television at home, that
  28. television should not be allowed to replace a real teacher, and that
  29. you will not purchase or recommend Pepsi products as long as they
  30. advertise on Whittle's Channel One.
  31.  
  32. mitja@hera.berkeley.edu
  33. Not endorsed by UC Berkeley.
  34.